Sentence examples for possessed under from inspiring English sources

The core challenge of the Constitutional Convention was to persuade the representatives of the states to surrender some of the power they possessed under the Articles of Confederation, which had produced a weak and ineffectual national government.

Meanwhile, British farmers in the country – many of whom were invited by the Mugabe regime in happier times – continue to have their farms forcibly possessed under the so-called "indigenisation" laws.

Vertebrate-infecting viruses possessed under-representation of CpG and TpA, and insect-only viruses displayed only a TpA under-representation bias.

I am wearing every piece of clothing that I possess under my oilskins and I'm still cold.

Trident submarines, on the other hand, are highly survivable and carry the existing Trident II missile, which we possess under a financially advantageous arrangement with the United States.

First Strike Scenarios Both the United States of America and the Russian Federation now possess and, as before, will possess under the terms of any possible future arms reduction agreements, large, diversified, viable arsenals of strategic offensive weapons consisting of various types of ICBM's, submarine-launched ballistic missiles and heavy bombers.

Though California law allows medical marijuana, the drug remains illegal to use or possess under federal law.

On Monday, the pair announced that the city would no longer arrest people for publicly possessing under 25 grams of marijuana -- another common "broken windows" offense.

Using tiny rolled balls of sticky rice as shovels, I demolished everything — along with whatever residual bug phobias I still possessed — in under 10 minutes.

P. aeruginosa strains isolated from CF patients evolved the capacity to reduce host immuno-detection by modulating LPS structure [ 30]. Biochemical and biological characterization of RP73 LPS showed to possess an under-acylated lipid A leading to a lower pro-inflammatory capacity in a murine model of intranasal instillation when compared to the LPS from the prototype strain PAO1 [ 31].

And insomuch as that a large contingent of our fellow humans live under governments possessed of no transparency whatsoever and operating largely in secret - and insomuch as that our own government has failed to earn any sort of easygoing trust on the part of its citizenry - such an entity as this serves a wholly necessary function.